We received wonderful news yesterday – we have a week scheduled for our Snowflake transfer! The transfer is scheduled to occur sometime the week of May 3. I’ve been joking with Rebekah that this is going to be a perfect anniversary present (it will be 3 wonderful years on May 5).

To me, it’s amazing how the Lord works – He works on His time table, not ours. The host clinic of our Snowflakes is closed for the month of March and our clinic doesn’t transfer during the month of April, and our Snowflake ship date isn’t until April 12. Rebekah has a course of medication to take that is approximately 4 – 6 weeks worth and she was supposed to start that around the end of February (had to wait on timing…if you get my drift). However, things didn’t start like we thought they should so Rebekah had to take some medication to try to get things moving along. Well, it took the full 10 days of the medication and still nothing started moving…yet. It worked out that yesterday was the day and Rebekah called the doctor to start the meds and got the timeline of a week of May 3 transfer. If you do the math – May 3 is exactly 6 weeks from yesterday (3/22). I fully believe that the Lord knew when our Snowflakes would ship and when things needed to start medication-wise, and He just pushed the pause button until He was ready.

So what’s next? Well, Rebekah started her medications yesterday and will continue them for the next 4-6 weeks until the transfer. Our Snowflakes will ship from their home to thier new home at our clinic on April 12. From there the doctors will begin the process of thawing and growing them to the point where they will be ready for implantation the week of May 3. After the transfer, we’ll have to wait to make sure the embryos “stick” and start growing.

Specific things we would ask for prayer in the coming weeks:

• Safe travel of the Snowflakes during their shipment on April 12
• Safe thawing of the Snowflakes and they survive the thawing process
• For Dr. Mathews and the nurses that will be handling the Snowflakes for preparation of the transfer
• For Rebekah as she starts her medications – that we will both be diligent in administering the medications to prepare her for the transfer

It’s been a long year in preparing for all of this – and it’s really starting to sink in that this is what we’ve been working so hard for, and now that a date is set, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. We sincerely appreciate all of the prayers and well wishes – we hope to give Hannah some cousins to play with soon!

Well, it’s certainly been a while since any status updates – but there was nothing to report at the time, so I didn’t really see the need to post a “nothing is happening” entry.

We now have a ship date for the embryos – April 12. As it turns out, I’m in the wrong business. Our shipping clinic shuts down for the entire month of March, and our local clinic doesn’t do any transfers in April. It’s looking like we’ll be doing a transfer sometime in May. So even though the embryos will arrive in April, they’ll have to just “chill” (pun intended) until May when our clinic starts transfers again.

What happens in the mean time? Next to nothing really. We just have to wait and be patient. Rebekah has a course of medication that looks rather intimidating that she has to start soon to prepare for the transfer. I’m bracing for the ensuing “hormone hurricane” that may come from the super load of hormones they’re going to pump her full of.

In other random news – we’re contemplating adding on to the house before our Snowflakes show up. Rebekah’s Stampin’ Up! business is really doing well, and her classes keep growing (insert plug for her new blog at http://blog.bekalynn.com here). I’m extremely proud of her and she’s doing a wonderful job with it!! We’re thinking of adding a sunroom or utility room of some sort so that she can move her stamping stuff downstairs to keep it all centrally located – as well as providing additional “overflow” space for her classes. We’ve just started looking into this option and trying to decide whether it’ll be a do-it-yourself project (with the help of our family Mr. Handyman a.ka. Dad –  http://www.mrhandymanlkn.com ) or hire it out to a contractor. I’ve been running some designs through AutoCAD to see different scenarios and what they may look like. We’ll just have to see what shakes out as far as cost and design limitations, etc.

Until next time,
E